Some of you may have noticed that I put ads on the site: I’m using Google AdSense, obviously, and I installed it more because I just wanted to see what would happen rather than because I expected to make anything off it. For the privilege of earning a grand total of $0.02 over the last month, I’ve been given the above as the sort of ad Google’s algorithms have deemed to be relevant to the content here.

The first ad, frankly, makes me sick. I can only assume that ‘AnastasiaDate.com’ is the only advertiser Google has paying them who associates their services with the word ‘Moldova’ (though it has occurred to me that maybe I’ve written too much about Moldoveancas here and I’ve done this to myself).

The second ad makes sense; it’s the third ad that I don’t really understand. Is it because I’ve mentioned that having all my teeth and being in my late twenties put me in a minority in my village and thus made me an especially eligible bachelor? Or do visitors to this site leave and go shop for coupons? Or for tooth whiteners?

Proprietary algorithms are such a mystery.

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4. goodcabbage said: I giggled that’s really funny I always get ads like “buy a goat for an African child!”
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